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Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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I have four sons and three stepsons. I have learnt what it is like to step on Lego with bare feet.
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Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Experts are never in real danger. Everyone needs them. The chambermaid always survives the palace revolution. Someone has to make the beds.
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Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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Even God has become female. God is no longer the bearded patriarch in the sky. He has had a sex change and turned into Mother Nature.
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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One learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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As far as I'm concerned, Giles takes 10% of my income; as far as he's concerned, I take 90% of his.
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.
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Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
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We are all one-syllable people now, two at the most. So we mumble and stumble into our futures. But it is still our task and our reward to scavenge through the universe, picking up the detritus of lost concepts, dusting them down, making them shine. Latin was the best polishing cloth of all, but we threw it away.
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Your generation does too much sharing. To share grief is to double grief, not halve it.
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Fay Weldon
Born:
September 22, 1931
Died:
January 4, 2023
(aged 91)
Bio:
Fay Weldon was an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism.
Known for:
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
The New Countess (2013)
Auto da Fay (2002)
The Fat Woman's Joke (1967)
Habits of the House (2012)
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